Cold Blooded vetrabrates Flashcards
Animals with a spine
Vertebrates
Animals that use body heat to maintain temperature
Endotherms
An organism that needs other sources of heat.
Ectotherms
A faint line that marks sense organs and detects vibration in the water
Lateral Line
An organ that helps animals breath underwater.
Gills
Jawless fish like a Lamprey and Hagfish
Jawless Fishes
Fish without cartilage these contain Rays, Sharks, and SKATES
Cartilaginous Fishes
Boney fish and these fish include Catfish, tuna, and lungfish
Bony Fishes
A gas filled sack that controls buoyancy
Swim Bladder
An animal that can live in water that has legs and lungs.
Amphibians
An organ that helps breath
Lungs
The larva of a frog or toad
Tadpole
A process of rapid change that turns a larva into an adult
Metamorphosis
A group of limbless, serpentine, amphibians that mostly live underground.
Caecilians
Amphibians that are lizard-like in appearance and have a tail in both larva and adult
Salamanders
An amphibian that goes through the metamorphic cycle of a tadpole to frog.
Frogs
They are like frogs but have worts and dry skin
Toads
They are like amphibians but live their whole life on land
Reptiles
A type of egg that is surrounded by a membrane
Amniotic Eggs
A reptile with a shell on its back and lives mostly in water
Turtles
A reptile with a shell on its back and lives mostly on land
Tortoises
A meat-eating reptile with a narrow head and pointed snout.
Crocodiles
meat-eating reptile with a broad head with a rounded snout.
Alligators
A reptile that is round and long
Snakes
A reptile that mostly eats small bugs
Lizards
Only a few live on islands off the coast of new zealand
Tuataras
